India, April 14 -- The Canadian market is up firmly in positive territory around noon on Monday, thanks to fairly widespread buying as investors react to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's announcement on Friday that certain tech products will be excluded from President Donald Trump's "reciprocal tariffs."
Among the products excluded from reciprocal tariffs are smartphones and computers as well as other devices and components like semiconductors.
However, the U.S. President claimed that there was "no Tariff 'exception' announced," noting the products are still subject to existing 20% fentanyl tariffs are just moving to a "different Tariff 'bucket.'"
The benchmark S&P/TSX Composite Index, which climbed to 23,916.31 earlier in the se...